California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies

Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by whatshisface on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:32PM (#29355877)

If you're against stockpiling, then you're in favor of the zero inventory cost cutting practice that got us in to this mess to begin with.

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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by bfdm on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:57PM (#29356025)

Yup, turned out that inventory isn't pure capital waste after all. It's an insurance policy, an investment in stability.

Bring back inventory.

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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by mschuster91 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:19AM (#29358828)

And in ten years, when the pandemic has passed, the MBA beancounters and/or "activist investors" will ask the question "do we need stockpiles of inventory???" again. And then history will repeat itself - many years of profit, followed by a crisis of some kind and then we will have another "delivery crisis".

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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by alfiedotwtf on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:00AM (#29359511)

> It's an insurance policy

That's a really good way of putting it.

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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by Dylan16807 on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:59PM (#29357272)

Stockpiling as a general concept doesn't worsen things.

Rapidly increasing your stockpile size as a response to shortages is what worsens things.

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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by the_mitsuhiko on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:07PM (#29363495)

There is a balance to everything.

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